CookingHow to make savoury sago and potato donuts
Soaked sago pearls, mashed potato and crushed peanuts make a dough for crisp, spicy donuts; the ingredients and steps are here.
CookingSoaked sago pearls, mashed potato and crushed peanuts make a dough for crisp, spicy donuts; the ingredients and steps are here.
CookingIngredients and method for a soya chunk pulao made with fragrant rice, soft soya, potato, capsicum, cashews and raisins.
CookingResting the batter for half an hour, a low flame and only a film of oil make 10 to 12 soft rice-flour crepes at home, filled with milk, date palm jaggery and coconut.
CookingA milky vegetable jhol, puffed-rice fritters, banana stem with pumpkin and brinjal stuffed with coconut chutney: four vegetarian recipes by Rukma Diksha in Desh Rupantor.
CookingSabudana, once thought of only as food for the sick, makes a crisp evening snack when mixed with potato, vegetables, gram flour and spices; the recipe is by Asit Karmakar.
CookingNoodles, 200 grams of cooked beef, soy and tomato sauce, carrot and capsicum make a beef noodle dish in a few minutes, for guests or a child's lunchbox.
CookingBy USDA figures a cup of cooked pumpkin has just 49 calories and about 3 g of fibre; here are five ways Afghanistan, Vietnam, Myanmar and India cook it.
CookingThin flour crepes filled with chicken, carrot, cabbage and capsicum cooked in soy and tomato sauce, dipped in egg and breadcrumbs and fried, make homemade chicken vegetable rolls.
CookingBeef or mutton mince mixed with onion, red capsicum, garlic, parsley, paprika, Aleppo pepper and cumin, baked at 210C for 12 to 15 minutes, makes Turkey's spicy Adana kebab.
CookingAs canals and beels recede after the rains, small local shrimp turn up in markets; Shahnaz Setu's recipe slow-cooks them with plenty of onion and chilli.
CookingHollowed pointed gourds are filled with small shrimp cooked in a cashew, poppy seed and mustard paste, lightly fried and simmered in a spiced gravy, in a recipe by Shahnaz Setu.
CookingSoft pancakes of spinach, ripe banana, flour, egg and milk, cooked on a low flame, are an easy way to put greens into a child's breakfast; babies under one need no added salt or sugar.
Torn bread mixed with eggs, vegetables and cheese makes a pan pizza in a few minutes, with no oven needed.